The Lethal Soviet “Night Witches” of the 588th Night Bomber Unit
During World War II , American woman were put to work ; in Russia , women were put to war . In 1941 , Operation Barbarossa meant the intrusion of the Soviet Union by Nazi forces , and the Soviets ’ foray into an untapped reservoir of lastingness : distaff Cuban sandwich pilots . Though Soviet women were banish from combat at the beginning of the war , a disk - split up aviatrix named Marina Raskova ( hailed as the “ Soviet Amelia Earhart”)was subsequently call upon by Joseph Stalin to prepare a regimentof new female pilots to fight the German invaders , making the Soviet Union the first nation to let adult female to fly combat mission ....